Someone tell me when heavyweight boxing turned into a Saturday night pub scrap with judges. Brandon Moore vs. Skylar Lacy wasn’t a fight—it was pure embarrassment, a comedy act so ridiculous, even the referee probably wanted to walk out.
Let’s start with Moore (17-1), the…
There seems to at least something of a chance that a big heavyweight fight will take place in Kinshasa [Democratic Republic of Congo] in October of this year, this between Martin Bakole and Anthony Joshua. If it happens, on the site of course of the…
Jesus Ramos Jnr’s career may be looking up, but he’s setting his sights on moving back down the scale. The southpaw from Casa Grande, Arizona scored perhaps the most significant win of his career so far on Saturday night, when stopping the former junior-middleweight…
The Atlantic City Boxing Hall of Fame has revealed the inductees for its class of 2025, who will be celebrated on the weekend of September 26-28. The retired fighters Julian Jackson, Steve Collins and Junior Jones lead the roll call, and are complemented in the…
Some fight fans call Salvador Sanchez the greatest Mexican fighter of them all. Some fight fans suggest Danny Lopez deserves to be ranked as one of the most consistently exciting lower-weight fighters of them all. On the day of February 2nd in 1980, the two…
Claressa Shields is targeting a rematch with Costa Rica’s Hanna Gabriels after becoming the first women’s undisputed heavyweight champion in victory over Danielle Perkins. Via scores of 97-92, 99-90 and 100-89 she also became the first fighter, male or female, to earn the status of…
If things fall into place, reigning super-bantamweight and, in the opinion of many, pound-for-pound champ Naoya Inoue could fight three more times this year. As fans know, Inoue drubbed a game late-sub in the form of Ye Joon Kim, this on January 24, Kim stepping…
Lonnie B Thompson says David Benavidez cannot defeat undisputed light heavyweight champion Artur Beterbiev fighting like he did against David Morrell last Saturday night. He’s going to have to come up with a better style against Beterbiev.
Benavidez (30-0, 24 KOs) earned the WBC mandatory…
WBC female heavyweight champion Claressa Shields (16-0, 3 KOs) made it look easy, defeating Danielle Perkins (5-1, 2 KOs) by a 10-round unanimous decision to become the undisputed champion on Sunday night at the Dort Financial Center in Flint, Michigan.
The Scores
100-89 97-92 99-90…
Before a packed house for the return of local favorite Claressa ‘T-Rex’ Shields, easily defeated the amateurish WBC Silver world heavyweight champion Danielle ‘New Era’ Perkins by a 10-round unanimous decision on Sunday for their titles, three vacant titles, including WBA, WBO, and IBF titles.…